In my neighborhood, I frequently walk past “shop local” signs in the windows of struggling stores. Yet I don’t feel guilty ordering most of my family’s household goods on Amazon. In a world of fair competition, there will be winners …
by Michael Snyder I guess by now we should be accustomed to politicians lying to us. For years, Republicans have been promising to repeal Obamacare if we would just give them control of the White House, the Senate and the …
Nigerian Stock Exchange Activity Rises after Government Weakens Currency Nigerian finance minister urges less external borrowing Published on Jul 12, 2017 Nigeria’s finance minister has said the country must not borrow more to fund its budget and should instead raise …
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated development of the exoskeletons in 2001 under the Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation programme. The agency funded $50m to various participants under the five-year programme. However, only two of them have …
The cataclysmic devaluation of the bolivar in Venezuela and the brutal repression in the South American country now go hand in hand; state security agencies are increasingly demanding bribes in relatively strong Colombian pesos to release unjustly detained protesters. It …
By Michael Snyder Would Kid Rock make a good U.S. senator? When asked if a website promoting his potential run was real, he responded by tweeting that the answer is “an absolute YES”. Of course no official announcement has been …
by David Haggith One of the kookiest moments last month came when Fed Chairwoman Yellen spoke about seeing no financial collapse in sight during our lifetimes “Would I say there will never ever be another financial crisis? No. Probably that …
WHY would the CEO of the CME state this on live TV?? Is it because he now expects much higher metals prices in the months ahead and he wants to front-run them with his “analysis”? Is he tipping off The …
by Mark Angelides A new Bill, SB719, has been passed by both the House and the Senate in Oregon that allows police to take your legally owned weapons AND permit without your permission, even if you have never appeared in …
I know, it is a 1/2 hour long. But well worth the watch. This is a collection of how, and why the media is not your friend! I am bookmarking this to show the sheep in need of a red …
by Ian Shilling a. Lie: The FBI operates according to the Constitution and within the law to benefit the American population. Truth: The FBI has operated totally outside the Law and outside the U.S. Constitution ever since its foundation in …
By Michael SnyderDid you know that the federal government is going to spend more than 4 trillion dollars this year? To put that into perspective, U.S. GDP for the entire year of 2017 is going to be somewhere between 18 …
by Pamela Williams President Trump’s new FBI nominee has been announced. Christoper Wray, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 12, 2017. He confirmed he would do his job without partisan political influence in response to the first question of …
I didn’t realize this until now!! Literally they want to keep their illegal voters! “The apportionment calculation is based on the total resident population (citizen and noncitizen) of the 50 states. ” https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2000/dec/pio00-ac.pdf Even if they don’t vote, they cancel …
by Yuli-Ban No matter how much you might want it to be true just to satisfy that tiny little itch on your nerve that the MSM has aggravated, there is actually very little chance that China will collapse. “How is …
She’s the one in the tan dress. Photo from the hearing h/t _George_Costanza_
by Michael Snyder August 21st is the date of “the Great American Eclipse”, and the hype around it is already starting to reach a fever pitch. It is being called “the Great American Eclipse” because this will be the first …
by Mark Angelides A political activist group known as The Satanic Temple have been hitting the front pages recently as they have just received permission to erect a “Satanic Statue” in a public place. A deeper look into the group …
by Mark Angelides Unless you have been living in a vacuum these past few years, it can’t have escaped your attention that in heavily Muslim populated areas (especially in Europe), there are “Shariah Patrols” wandering the streets enforcing the Tenets …
by Pamela Williams This is a complex setup that Donald Trump Jr. has gotten himself in to, but he certainly is not in it alone. OK, I think I will start by listing the cast of characters and their roles: 1.Natalia …
It is government deciding who is going to contribute more to society. So, therefore, who gets the treatment. It is where it goes when you get into this Orwellian oligarchy. It has got to stop and has got to stop …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A “collapse” isn’t when something edges down 1% in value or even 10% or 20%; it’s when something plunges 50% in a short time. Ethereum has collapsed 52% in four weeks. The second largest cryptocurrency by market …
Chinese ambassador "private, off the record" set up for meeting with Clinton campaign during run up to US election https://t.co/fLDCvJkrjT pic.twitter.com/2LJtFmbcoY — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 19, 2017 The email where they were offered money from some shady foreign source and …
By Michael Snyder After reading this article, you will never look at tap water the same way again. Most Americans have generally assumed that the water coming out of our taps is perfectly safe, but the Flint water crisis and …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiXKBSGHSB0 Some U.S. real estate markets have bounced back strongly since the Great Recession while others have languished. All told, “the recovery is spotty at best.” Now, two new developments are adding risk to the mortgage market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiFtoy4_uv0 Retail ETF …
by Mark Angelides Last Thursday, former President, Barack Obama, turned out at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) fundraiser; this coupled with his activities on the world stage (visiting Foreign leaders, hosting Foundation events etc…) leads to only one logical …
Americans age 40 and older have a new reason to fear age discrimination: the United States Department of Labor. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is at the root of the problem. This program is administered by the Labor Department …
by Michael Snyder Did you know that many members of Congress spend three or four hours a day “dialing for dollars” in cramped call centers that both parties have set up in Washington? I promised that I would keep all …
This Metric Shows U.S. Corporate Debt At Stretched Territory U.S. corporate bond issuance was $106.2 billion in June, comprising $83.1 billion in investment-grade (IG) and $23.1 billion in high-yield (HY). This puts the first-half total at $868.1 billion, of which …
By Michael Snyder If you could stay home and play video games all day, would you do it? According to a brand new report that was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research on Monday, American men from the …